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Friday, November 25, 2016

You might have guessed when you see this topic "How to Unlock iCloud by Chance". Actually, I do not have the IT skill to unlock an iPhone like some guys on the internet.

What I did was to try out a few things before giving up and it worked and that is why I am sharing with you guys here before handing your phone to someone to help you unlock.

Let me get straight to what happened and how I did it:

- What happened:

It happened to my wife's phone (iPhone 5) when she updated iOS of her phone, then the phone required her to type the password of her Apple ID. It did not show a complete apple ID. How it showed was c*************@yahoo.com. My wife was not aware of her email nor password. Thus, the phone was stuck at the stage and she was not able to do anything with the phone. It was totally a brick.

When I did not even know the email, I was quite hopeless and went to several phone shops to find service. Some phone shops asked me for $85 to unlock the phone but they did not guarantee whether I would lose the data. For $85, it is not worth for the iPhone 5, but it is worth for the data inside the phone. I also went to another shop, they said they could not fix this phone and suggested me to change the phone's board so that I can use it again and that would cost $55.

I did not like the proposed solutions and ended up bringing the phone back home and leave it locked for a month. I guess when I was too close to the trouble, I could not think of a solution. Giving a break was important and later when I tried to look for a solution again, I found one.

How I did it:

When you don't even know your Apple ID, you may try searching for the Apple ID!!! You can go to the link "iForgot Apple ID" and try typing your Firstname, Lastname and E-mail address. You surely know your first name and last name, but you can guess the email address. If it's close enough to your real Apple ID, it will suggest you. And for my case, I typed my wife's name and guessed the Apple ID and it suggested her Apple ID.

Now that I have the Apple ID, but I still did not have its password. You can come back to Apple ID log in page, then click on Forget Password.

The new password will be sent to your email address.

For my case, my wife's yahoo account had not been logged in for years, she did not remember yahoo's password either.

I was so lucky that the yahoo account was deactivated. Then, it was easy since I went to Yahoo page and sign up a new account for her which looks the same to her apple ID.

Now that I have yahoo ID to log in to retrieve the Apple ID's password. Then, I can as well log into the Apple ID's account. It was that simple.

Another case:

After solving my wife's phone, I also helped a colleagues to get his iCloud's password. His case is not hard at all, but the problem was that people are not aware of how to solve the problem. His Apple ID and iCloud account was s****@icloud.com, so when we don't know the icloud password, we can go to resent password by going to Apple ID's page and click on Reset password, then just simply go to Mail on iPad to check the iCloud's email for the link to reset the password.

Actually, this post is not a big solution to unlocking the iCloud, but something that a lot of people are not aware of, skipped and went straight to find service! After reading this post, all I hope is that you tried all of your best before finding service!

Saturday, September 24, 2016

There are a lot of options for travelers to choose when it comes to traveling from Phnom Penh to Bangkok. I myself experienced in travelling both by air and road to Bangkok. When it comes to travelling on the road, I have to be aware because different means will lead to high or low range of comfort and time spent for travelling. Now let’s say bus is your option, and here I am going to tell you one of the best bus options that you should consider.

Nattakan is a Thai bus company that cooperates with Rith Muny transportation company in Cambodia. Thus, when you choose this bus, you will have to buy its ticket at Rith Muny office which is nearby Gloria Jeans riverside. It costs $25 per ticket if you buy in Phnom Penh; and it costs 750 Baht when you buy 1 ticket at Mo Chit bus station.

Pros:
- 1 stop only at Pursat for brunch
- Only 1 direct bus, no transit
- There is a toilet in the bus. Pee pee poo poo is not a problem.
- Short distance to walk from immigration office to find this bus
- Save time (about 1 to 2 hours) and energy (not cramped) as you will arrive at 7:30.
- Comfortable to sleep
- It’s more spacious, easy to sit, and better behaved people prefer it, so eventually the feeling is better too.
- There is no need to walk and find another van at the border and pay extra 250 Baht.
- It provides free evening meal and drink on the bus. So, we could save lots of time without stop from Aranyaprathet to Bangkok.
- Free snack and beverage in the morning, packed fried rice (EzyGo) to be delivered in the afternoon. It is included when you pay the $25 bus ticket.
- Thai drivers tend not to stop for picking up passengers. They are ready to go at 06:00 even with 3 passengers.
- No need to wait for bus to be filled to go on from the border because only those who bought in Phnom Penh could continue going from the border.

Cons:- Bad point is the bus stop is at Mo Chit Bus Station. You will have to take taxi or BTS to the central. It cost my family 130 Baht to get from Mo Chit Bus Station to Asoke area. Probably, you can take Uber for cheaper transport.
- On your way back, the bus leaves Bangkok at 05:00 in the morning. Not at 06:00 in the morning like when you travel from Phnom Penh to Bangkok.
- Khmer drivers tend to stop quite often to pick up more passengers, but it is not too bad. I managed to arrive Phnom Penh at 07:00 PM.
- Spend about 150 Baht more on taxi from Mo Chit to your hotel.
- Not easy to travel for some Khmer as they need to be dropped at DD House.

Below is some photos:

This is a picture of the Nattakan bus from Phnom Penh to Bangkok.

Cambodia-Japan Friendship restaurant in Pursat

After purchasing the ticket, you have to find Platform 106 and wait there.

Wednesday, September 21, 2016

เขียวหวาน Icecream Terrarium (Kiao Wan Ice cream Terrarium) was founded in early 2016 by P House and Mamiao after the two fell in love and started the shop together. I do not recommend the shop only because they are my friends but the ice cream they serve is addicted!

Owner:

Kiao Wan was initially started by P House as Hthroughheart ice cream shop at Khao San Road. P House met Mamiao for the first time on their trip to Kanjanaburi on March 21-22, 2015; the two fell in love and started the shop Kiao Wan.

Inspiration:

Kiao Wan means Sweet Green. It's the shop that serve ice cream that is so natural and good for health. The ice cream shop's name also has the word Terrarium. So, it was also inspired by the self-sustaining plants which has its own eco-system. This shop uses terrarium as decoration.

Ice Cream Flavors:

There are flavors that are there everyday and there are Unknown ice cream types in which guests can give a try because the lovebird owners always mix ice cream in a mysterious way and call it Unknown. You will have to guess what you are eating. :D And when you first step in, don't be shocked. You will be given a little of all ice cream types to taste and order the one that you like best.

Probably, I do not have to describe much about flavors, I'll give you loads of flavor photos ...

Shop design:

Thursday, September 8, 2016

Cellcard Lab offers young Cambodians a fast-track to social business success
PRESS RELEASE
Released on September 3, 2016

Phnom Penh, September 3 – Young, enterprising Cambodians looking to fast-track
their ideas into social business opportunities can make their dream a reality via
Cellcard’s first-ever incubator program, Cellcard Lab, in partnership with Impact
Hub Phnom Penh.

The unique program, launched by the telco and co-working space Impact Hub
Phnom Penh, aims to inspire and guide Cambodians aged 18 to 25 years old by
offering them a platform to launch social businesses.

The program, which launches today, Sept 3, will roll out 4 cycles, each of which will
entitle 3 lucky applicants to a 3 month program by Impact Hub Phnom Penh.

Each cycle offers participants a three-month work space at Impact Hub Phnom
Penh, networking and resource opportunities and access to workshops focusing on
customer discovery and validation, strategy roadmaping and pitching. They will
also enjoy a full-funded, three-day visit to Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia to attend a
workshop at the prestigious MaGIC (Malaysian Global Innovation & Creativity
Centre) Acceleration Program and tour the Microsoft office in the capital.

Personalized mentoring and coaching throughout the initiative will be provided by
experts in their respective fields. These comprise Maelle Barbancon, the technical
coordinator for Friends International; Chhunny Noem, the CEO & founder of Anakot
Asia; and Laura Smitheman, the co-founder of Impact Hub. The three mentors will
focus on assisting participants build their business model, provide teambuilding
and creativity advice and basically, help entrepreneurs better implement, develop
and execute their ideas.

“There’s no doubt that Cambodian youth have the ideas, skills and passion, but we
believe inspiration and knowledge-sharing by those who have succeeded are
equally as important to turn business ideas into reality,” said Cellcard CCO Laszlo
Barta. “Cellcard Lab welcomes business ideas of any kind, and in turn, provides
successful applicants an invaluable platform that accelerates their ability to gain a
complete set of skills and ultimately, bring their product to market.”

He added that as part of the brand’s #KhmerWeCan campaign, Cellcard Lab would
complement its overall aim of inspiring Khmer pride and encouraging local youth
to realize their potential and achieve their dreams.

Friday, July 29, 2016

Here we we go again with translation technique. If you have not read my first post about this, you will have to read the Part 1 first: Translation Technique Part 1

Here I would like to address Google Translate since it's a bit mature now. Everybody knows about Google Translate, but this post is going to give you more confident in using Google Translate. In the event that we don't know the meanings of many words in a paragraph, we will have to spend a lot of time translating those words. With Google Translate, we save times. Since we copy and paste the whole paragraph, and double check if the translation is correct. It is important to stay cautious when we copy and paste from Google Translate.

After copy-paste from Google Translate, I list down the Translation under the English paragraph. I compare sentence by sentence to see the errors. After fixing all of the errors, I deleted the English paragraph, leaving only the Khmer paragraph.

Wednesday, January 20, 2016

When having Paypal account in Cambodia, it's a pain because we can only Send out money, but not receiving or withdrawing. So, to receive money we need to use fake address like you were signing up in the US or in Thailand, etc. For that you can receive, and to withdraw some people use Payoneer. Now let's talk about registering a Paypal account with fake address first.

For my case, I have a Thai visa card. Thus, it is important for me to sign up a Paypal account with an address in Bangkok. If you want an address in the US, you can do so too.
Since I use Opennet ISP, I could not sign up a Paypal account with fake address in Thailand, it always showed that I signed up from Vietnam because the IP of Opennet is a Vietnamese company. It disappointed me very much that I closed and reopened my Paypal account many times and it still shows that my country is Vietnam, not Thailand.

For my case, a friend (Mr. Sou Sovannara) suggested me that I installed two apps in my phone called "oVPN Spider" and "VPN Connect". Then, I could fake my IP to Thai IP.

It's an easy app to use, after installing these apps, it will take you only several seconds to understand it.

After faking the IP, now I could search for Paypal in Thai, and sign up with my address in Thai. And of course, I could link it to my Thai visa card.

Tuesday, January 19, 2016

If you are interested in this topic, you might have been introduced to Paypal and already knew that there is a bottleneck with Paypal when you want to do online business in Cambodia, because in Cambodia, we can only send money out, but not receiving or withdrawing money from Paypal.

You might also have been introduced to using fake address abroad, let say an address in America or in Thailand to register a new paypal account, then register another account in Payoneer to get a master card so that you can withdraw your money from ATM machines. If you are happy with that option, you can do that too.

In this post, I am going to introduce you to another way, but you will need a help from Thai person.

I have a Thai close friend (Mr. Apinat Khamboonmak aka M) and he is so kind. He helped me all the way through when I was at the bank in Bangkok.

First, I opened a Thai saving account and also a Visa card. It costs 300 Baht. And I deposited another 3,000 Baht. Before I could do this, I went there with M as he agreed to be my guarantor. He guaranteed so that I could open a bank account at CIMB Thai. So, staff at CIMB made photocopy of his ID card, my ID card and my passport. That's it!

Normally, other banks would require more documents such as apartment rent contract or your employment contract or your visa because you are a foreigner, but for CIMB Bank, if you have a Thai national to guarantee then a foreigner can open an account. Also, you don't have to wait for long to receive your visa card too. You will receive on the same day. So, all is done in one day.

What's special about CIMB Thai is that there is a Regional Withdrawal option which mean we can withdraw money from CIMB abroad like CIMB Cambodia or CIMB Malaysia without withdrawal service charge. So, I am quite contented to use CIMB Thai with ATM machines in Cambodia for no charge.

Also, you can tell the teller that you want to use Internet Banking. So, you will register for you and e-pin will be sent to your mobile number in Thailand to verify. Or you can register internet banking at ATM machine in Bangkok so that e-pin will be sent to you to register an account for internet banking.

At this point, I also want to grab your attention that before going to the bank, you should buy a Thai sim card at 7/11. You have a Thai sim card, then make sure you sign up a new Paypal account in Thailand and they will send sms to your Thai sim card the 4 digits to verify that you the Paypal account owner. You can do all that while you are in Bangkok. For my case, I signed up a Paypal account in Phnom Penh by using VPN so that I could register Paypal Thai account. Also, my Thai sim card was on roaming so I still could receive sms to verify my account.

Updated below on January 31, 2016

I actually had a problem since I got back from Bangkok. When I tried to link the bank account so that I can withdraw my money, I was not able to find CIMB Thai in the bank drop-down list. So, that meant I could only send out and receive, but not withdrawal. I had been asking staff at Paypal and CIMB Thai. Two Paypal staff responded me without a clue. They only said that I can't. I had sent two emails. One to CIMB Thai and another one to CIMB Malaysia. None of the CIMB replied to me. I also asked M whether I can open bank account at another bank. He helped me searched many banks and those banks required a work permit. However, a colleague from CIMB Thai replied to me in Facebook messenger a week after I had dropped the question. His answer is very satisfying. Actually, I could not find the bank name because its former name was Bank Thai Plc. Phewww...

So, now I can completely Send, Receive and Withdraw!

Update on March 16, 2016 below:

I tried to open paypal again and found that they now have CIMB Thai Public Bank. So, the above problem doesn't exist anymore. You can open a bank account at CIMB now and enjoy full services that Paypal has to offer!

Update on December 01, 2016:
I have just realized that we can also open USD account at CIMB Thai, but you will still need to go there with a Thai national to guarantee. You will also have to deposit $500 to create a new foreign currency account.
For this type of account, you don't have to worry about currency conversion. However, the bank will charge 2% from the withdrawn amount. Let's say, they charge $2 from your $100.